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leih hou, Gating!

 

I just got back from the temple, so life is wonderful. I don´t think ill ever get used to pouring a week worth of information into one 30 minute email. But I have to start somewhere! Ok so here is the news on my shoulder,

 

It feels like 500% better. It´s amazing. My entire district fasted for me on Sunday and praying for me to get better and it´s working. It´´s pretty much a miracle. I got up in testimony meeting on Sunday and bore my testimony of priesthood blessings. Though my shoulder still hurts every once in a while, i´´m still able to devote all my efforts into my work without it distracting me. Heavenly Father is awesome!

 

I´´m supposed to see a physical therapist once a week, and friday was my first day going. It was neat because they did this thing called electro'stimulation, where they basically zap me with as much voltage as I can stand and then they put ice on top of it. It´´s supposed to relax my muscles, but it makes me really twitchy sometimes, which my companions think is kinda funny. Oh, and I got really strong drugs that help me sleep reallllllllllllly well. haha. so i´´m kinda loopy. but I suppose that´s normal. Thank you for all your prayers back home.

 

I found out that missionaries in the MTC aren´´t allowed to call home for christmas, but i´´ll talk to you two weeks later when i´´m flying out to hong kong. So i guess that´´s not so bad. The weather out here has deff gotten...wintery. We were able to take a temple walk as a district last week and play in the leaves, and it was the first snow that ive seen since i got here. I sent home a letter today with some fun pictures in it from our temple walk. so hopefully aunt B or someone can help you scan them to get them on my blog.

 

Our language study is getting more intense every day. I can now say a full prayer in Chinglish. (chinese and english) and i´m getting better at focusing and retaining information. This week we have two new investigators, Bonnie and AFai, who we are supposed to teach entirely in cantonese. My companions are pretty fast at looking up words so usually were ok, but this time we can´´t have our dictionary with us, so we get to rely on the spirit! hoorayyyyyyyyyy. haha,  no it´´s really exciting. This week im praying to be better at interpreting what our investigators are saying...because it´´s hard to teach to their needs if you just do the nod and smile thing whenever they talk....you know, like when you´´re talking to a two year old. (except i feel like a two year old most of the time when i speak)

 

I´m glad everyone had a good Halloween. You should send me some mail. like....real mail. My companions always get tons of mail and it makes me feel like an orphan or something.

 

So....funny story that happened this week, Elder Moreno (the one from puerto rico) was saying a prayer in class and the word for Jesus Christ in Cantonese is Yeh Sou Gei DUk. and the word for Joseph Smith is Yak Sat Si Mat. and he messed it up in front of an investigator and said ´´in the name of joseph smith amen´´ and his companion and the investigator started laughing really hard. haha. Also, someone from our district was trying to say ´´do you have any questions´´ and accidentally asked the investigator...´´do you have any private children¿´´ lol. I really can not relate to you how funny everyone in my district is. Mitchell would aprriciate that whenever someone in the class says something sarcastic we all go ´´ohhhhhhhhhhhh!´´ (like in the regular show). haha.

 

Cantonese is awesome.

 

Anyway I´m running out of time but i love you all. The church is true and I really feel like i´´ve grown so much already. My testimony of prayer has definitly grown. I´m so glad that we have a prophet today that guides us and helps us know what to do. And I love Jesus Christ. Annnnd....oh! I found out one of my room mates is related to Hannah and Karen garner, my room mates from college! Her name is sister Neilson and she is soooo cute. I´´m not sure why i interrupted my testimony with that but oh well...i´d try to fix it but someone who is learning Spanish totally screwed up this keyboard and none of the buttons work right. aiieeeeyaaaa.

 

I feel like im forgetting something.....oh yeah! Give Emma a high five for me. People should not give out fruit for Halloween.  that´´s blasphemy.

 

ngoi,

 

Gou Ji Muih